Subscriber News: January 2022
Recent Honors
Congratulations to Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé. The e-anthology he co-edited with Eric Tinsay Valles, A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems, was launched this winter to commemorate the Philippine quincentennial and Singapore bicentennial of Catholicism in 2021. In December, it was featured in the Luminary Art Exhibition at Catholic200SG. Free to read online, this collection's 100 contributors from around the world include well-known authors such as Diane Glancy, G.C. Waldrep, and Paul Mariani. In other news, Desmond's book Depth of Field: A Guided Journal for Self-Healing was recently published by Penguin Books.
Congratulations to Shobana Gomes. Her novel As Delicate as Snow won third prize in the Romance category of the 2021 TCK Publishing Reader's Choice Awards.
Congratulations to Diane De Pisa. Her memoir of grief and healing, Love of Finished Years: Messages Between Soul Mates, was recently published by Wipf and Stock. This hybrid narrative includes poems and journal entries, as well as accounts of her spiritual and paranormal experiences of connection to her late husband. One 5-star reviewer on Amazon calls it a "beautiful, consoling story of grief" and another says "Each poem accompanied by elegant journal entries draws us into a love story replete with imagination, empathy, humor, and wisdom."
Recent Publications
Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter will interview poet Ruth Thompson at a free online event on Sunday, January 23, at 3:30 pm Eastern time. They will discuss Ruth's new book of spiritual channelings, Quickwater Oracles (Two Fine Crows Books), Jendi's studies in Tarot and witchcraft, and the collage art cards that the book inspired Jendi to create.
Dana Brantley-Sieders' self-help memoir Talking to My Tatas: All You Need to Know from a Breast Cancer Researcher and Survivor (Rowman & Littlefield) was favorably reviewed in Publishers Weekly, which called it "a heartfelt survey and a solid introduction to breast cancer" that "helps readers cut through the clutter of pseudoscience around treatments and cures".
Paula Brancato's story "Archaeology", an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, was published in The Kenyon Review (Nov/Dec 2021).
Gail Thomas is offering a four-week online workshop in February through Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop: "Memory & Desire: Poetry of Midlife". Gail says, "A challenge that many writers face is how to choose artful details when writing about memory or strong emotional content. Some of us may shy away from expressing deep loss or anger, or we may produce work that's overly sentimental. What devices can a poet use to make deeply personal material most effective?" This workshop is for poets in midlife who want to take their work to a deeper level by paying close attention to matters of craft.
Jessica Pegis' novel The God Painter (Stone Table Books, 2021) was reviewed in November at Women in Theology: "It is a brilliant and inventive work of spiritual imagination which envisions science, technology, and religion coexisting within the same existential landscape...the core of the story is a testament to the importance not only of spirituality but also the inevitability of the eternal, that feeling of standing outside time as we search for meaning in a universe that can change drastically and indefinitely, without warning." The God Painter was also named one of Q Spirit's top LGBTQ Christian books for 2021. Visit her website to learn more about this new work of speculative fiction with a theological twist.
Kip Meyerhoff's short story collection A Six-Pack to Go is now available in Amazon Kindle and print editions. This collection includes more adventures of his series character Rollo Michaels, a private investigator in L.A. Kip says, "Winning Writers really helps writers!"
Tamara Kaye Sellman's poems "Intention Tremor" and "Tecfidera", from her collection Intention Tremor (MoonPath Press, 2021), were nominated by the press for a Pushcart Prize. Proceeds from the sale of this book support multiple sclerosis research by the Accelerated Cure Project. Listen to Tamara's interview in Episode 222 of John Strum's podcast Real Talk MS. She will be reading with poet Jan Steckel at an online event hosted by SoulFood Poetry Night on Thursday, January 20, at 7:00 pm Pacific time.
Judy Juanita's poem "LIZZO" was published in October at The New Verse News.
Annie Dawid's story "Faith" was reprinted in Sequestrum. Her essay collection Put Off My Sackcloth was favorably reviewed by Tamara Chapman in the University of Denver Magazine. Annie was also interviewed for the magazine.
Scott Piner's second poetry collection, I Am Me: And Other Poems on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit, is now available on Amazon.
R.T. Castleberry's poems "Leaving the Night, This Wine", "One More Thing to Try", "No One Answers the Wary Lover", "A Feast, This Righteous Land", and "Morning to Work" were published in November at Lothlorien Poetry Journal. His poems "The Curiosities of Decline" and "How Deceptive the Moon" appeared this month in Down in the Dirt.
Eleanor Gamarsh's essay "Abundant Grace" was published in the December 2021 issue of Faith on Every Corner.
Published: January 8, 2022
